The Dehumanization of Art: And Other Writings on Art and Culture

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Pagina 63... think of; one feels that the author has to entertain an audience already stirred
up by a life of new and perilous experiences. The French tragedian wants to set
down on the canvas of a well-known "history," which in Notes on the Novel 63.

Pagina 106The canvas is not painted as a unity, but as a plurality. No part is related to any
other; each is perfect and separate. Hence the best means of distinguishing the
two tendencies in pictorial art- painting of bulk and painting of hollow space- is to
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Pagina 116... endeavored to pour out upon the canvas what is within: ideal invented objects.
Note how, by a simple advance of the point of view along the same trajectory it
has followed from the beginning, it arrives at an inverse result. The eyes, instead
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